Films by Moritz Kerst

Germany 2021, 25 min
by Bernadette Hauke

Insects are neither cute nor beautiful, but very exciting, thinks eleven-year-old Pepe from Berlin. His favorite animals are dragonflies, which control their four wings individually and can take off faster than a jet. And the bombardier beetle, which sprays hot poison in the face of its enemies so that it is not eaten. But where do these insects still exist and how do they live? Pepe knows that many insects are going extinct in Germany because their habitat is being taken away. He wants to change that!

Germany 2010, 90 min
by Dagmar Brendecke

Cato Bontjes van Beek's childhood was paradise. She, her sister Mietje and their brother Tim were very close In the 1930s Cato moves to Berlin. Here she learns the truth about the war and the cruelties in the occupied countries. She is stunned and gets involved in the "Rote Kapelle", a resistance organisation. Together with her sister Mietje, she organizes help for prisoners of war. With her friend Heinz Strelow she types leaflets against the war. Cato did what she could. Highly risky perhaps however, in every respect courageous and resolute. She is imprisoned and sentenced to death. In 1943, at the age of 22 Cato is guillotined in Berlin-Ploetzensee, together with 15 other woman and men. This film discovers the short and yet very full life of a an extraordinary woman.